How mhnatt started their logo design journey

Summary

For over 10 years, we have relied on our product logo and somewhat ignored the company logo. We are looking for something that is fresh and "ORIGINAL" - we want to avoid the suggestion of a generic logo that looks like it was generated from a logo catalog.

Company name

Gladstone

What inspires you and how do you envision the design for your business?

Desired Color Scheme:
We like the colors of our product (HTML #6cabe7 ) but are open to other color combinations. Multiple colors are welcome.

Desired Style:
WeÂ’d like the logo to include the name of our company "Gladstone" but this is not mandatory.
-UPDATE-
We need something that is original. Our company name "Gladstone" could be broken into 'fun' (glad) and 'rock' (stone). If this could be pulled off

Though our main product is software for fairs and expos, we do not want this reflected in the company logo since we also do business outside of this industry. Rather, any graphics in the logo should be generic (shapes, expressions, etc.) but original. Being that we are an information technology company, a shape representing such could be appropriate but not needed.